Dr Simon O'Keefe

Contact Details
York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5GH
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1904 325375
Fax: +44 (0)1904 325599
Office: RCH/329
Email username: simon.okeefe
Email domain: cs.york.ac.uk

I am a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. I am a member of the York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis.

Career Outline

1986	BA	University of Cambridge
1987	MSc Operational Research	University of Lancaster
1987-1992	Operational Research Analyst	HM Customs & Excise
1993	MSc Information Processing	University of York
1998	PhD Computer Science	University of York
1998-1999	RA, Department of Computer Science	University of York
1999-present	Lecturer in Computer Science	University of York

Research interests

My primary research interest is the study of neural networks and their application to a variety of problems. I have been involved in a number of projects in this area, including:

EUREDIT. The aims of this project were to:
- Develop a methodological evaluation framework and develop evaluation criteria for data editing and imputation
- Produce a standard collection of data sets
- Establish a baseline by evaluating currently used methods.
- Develop and evaluate a selected range of new techniques.
- Compare and evaluate the different methods and establish best methods for different types of data.
- Disseminate the best methods via a single computer package and publications.
FEDAURA. The aim of the FEDAURA Project was to develop and evaluate new computerised methods for automated Benefit fraud detection. The FEDAURA Project combined techniques from Statistics, Neural Networks and Machine Learning to produce fraud detection technologies using large-scale Benefit Claimant data sets.
"Understanding the constraints on sex ratio adaptation in parasitoid wasps using artificial neural networks." Funded by the BBSRC, this project is bsed in Biology with Peter Mayhew.

I also have an interest in the use of unconventional techniques for the implementation of computation, incluing the use of reaction diffusion systems and simple mechanical systems.

Publications

Recent publication data are available on the Advanced Computer Architecture Group web page.

External positions

Administrative Responsibilities

Chair of Mitigating Circumstances Committee
Secretary to the Board of Studies
Secretary to the Board of Examiners
External student competitions co-ordinator

Teaching responsibilities

I currently teach:

A lists of projects suggestions from 2007-8 are online here
A number of these projects are now taken, but the list gives an idea of the kinds of projects I may be interested in.

PhD supervision

I am currently supervising PhD students in a number of areas:

Kelvin Hai (with Ian Benest) - ontologies for teaching and learning
Rebecca Naylor - emergent synchronisation of artificial neurons in models of the visual system

Previous PhD students:

Thomas Lampert - analysis of acoustic data
Quan Ju - face recognition
Nimish Shah - development of improved correlation matrix memory

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Last updated: 6 march 2012